Sharmili Mallick

Bhubaneswar: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) in Odisha will announce the results of Plus II arts stream for 2019-20 on September 5, informed the State School And Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash today.

The CHSE will announce the results at 4 pm on Saturday. Candidates can check their scores by visiting www.chseodisha.nic.in and www.orissaresults.nic.in.

A total of 2.18 lakh students had appeared the Plus II arts examination this year which was held in March. However, a few papers could not be held due to nationwide lockdown amid the Covid-19 outbreak forcing the Odisha government to come up with a new process of evaluation.

As per the new scheme, if a student has appeared exams in 5 subjects, his average marks will be decided based on his top 3 scores, and if a student has managed to appear in 4 papers, his average will be calculated as per the top 2 scores.

Students can appear for improvement examination after the COVID-19 crisis subsides in case where they are unhappy with the marks awarded.

The results of Arts stream were earlier scheduled to be declared in the last week of August but as two officials of the council tested positive for coronavirus, it was deferred to September.

Earlier, the Plus 2 Science results were declared on August 12 while the Commerce results were announced on August 19. The pass percentage for Plus II Science examination stood at 70.21 per cent while the pass percentage for Commerce stream recorded at 74.95 percent.

(Edited By Suryakant Jena)

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